In partnership with: The Friends of the Utah Avalanche Forecast Center, Utah Department of
Public Safety Division of Comprehensive Emergency Management, Salt Lake County,
and Utah State Parks
NEW!
If you want to see photos of
avalanche activity, click here.
If you want recent archives
of this advisory, click here.
Check out our new avalanche
and backcountry observation page, CLICK HERE!
Good afternoon, this is Evelyn
Lees with the
First, a big thanks everyone
who supported our partner the Friends of the
Also, 15th annual
backcountry gear swap will be at REI this Saturday, November 9th. You can bring in any gear you want to sell on
Thursday or Friday evenings from about
Discussion on the real
subject of interest, backcountry snow and avalanche conditions, is regrettably brief. Storms in early and late October have given
the shady, upper elevation slopes a thin snowpack. Turns are possible, but generally limited to
upper Big and Little Cottonwood, with smooth runs at the closed ski areas your
best bet. But take your old rock skies
and boards – the shallow, weakening snow provides high odds of hitting rocks, with
a corresponding chance for serious injury.
Avalanche wise, if there is enough snow to ski or board, there is enough
to slide. Currently, there is a chance
of triggering one of the isolated shallow wind slabs that are along the highest
ridges or a sluff in the weakening snow.
With any sort of ride, the danger of injury by hitting a hard object is
high, in addition to possible burial.
A series of fast moving disturbances
are forecast to bring snow to the northern
We have several free
avalanche awareness talks coming up – the first two are Tuesday, November 12th
at
Thanks for calling!
________________________________________________________________________
For
more detailed weather information go to our Mountain Weather Advisory
National
Weather Service - Salt Lake City - Snow.
For an explanation of
avalanche danger ratings: